Google ‘nanny cam' will track deforestation

Published 02/20 2014 10:43AM

Updated 02/28 2014 09:06AM

GRN Reports:

Google will make it easier for companies like Wal-Mart, Unilever and Nestle to track whether suppliers are destroying forests when it unveils a real-time deforestation mapping tool Thursday in DC. The tool will show deforestation as its happening — in detail close enough to show logging roads and tree stands. Bloomberg’s Megan Hughes reports.